[Bug 28821] New: (X1400) driver crashes system when loaded

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28821

           Summary: (X1400) driver crashes system when loaded
           Product: xorg
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: blocker
          Priority: medium
         Component: Driver/Radeon
        AssignedTo: xorg-driver-ati at lists.x.org
        ReportedBy: ousia at openoffice.org
         QAContact: xorg-team at lists.x.org


Hi there,

I have been using my laptop (Dell Inspiron 6400 with an ATI Mobility X1400
[lspci info below]) with the radeonhd driver without no problems.

After I switched to Ubuntu 10.04 first and then to Fedora 13, those
distributions came with the radeon driver default and I began to experience
random crashes at system start when the video driver was loaded (reported at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/584525
and https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=606142).

Yesterday I updated some packages via the Fedora updater (yum install) and the
crash happens each time I start the system. So the laptop is totally unusable
(I'm reporting this using the Fedora 13 in live mode).

I don't even know how to disable the X server loading (I have googled for it,
but I found nothing).

The xorg.conf file seems not to be part of Fedora
(http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=20492), so I cannot provide it,
and no X.0.log is provided.

After reading http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Xorg/Debugging, I guess I need a
PhD in computer science to report it.

I'll try to switch to the radeonhd driver and see whether I could find a way to
report this crash (although it is extremely complicated for me [I'm a user, not
a programer]).

Thanks anyway. Just in case it might help,


Pablo


01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility
X1400 [1002:7145] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
 Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:2003]
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping-
SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort-
<MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 27
 Region 0: Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
 Region 1: I/O ports at ee00 [size=256]
 Region 2: Memory at efdf0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
 [virtual] Expansion ROM at efd00000 [disabled] [size=128K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: radeon
 Kernel modules: radeon

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